Lottery Bucket Lists

[Onyx2]

2 hours ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Definitely something to do with food. Probably not a restaurant, but a more like a shop selling wanky artisanal stuff. Sourcing the stuff to sell would be great fun, and I'd sell some of my own stuff too like my own sausage recipes that I've come up with and suchlike.

Yeah that's another one for me - a nice deli, bringing in the best local produce, making a few cured meats on the premises... lovely. 

[Devon Malcolm]

Artist's impression of @Onyx2 and @Chest Rockwell going into business together.

[Arch Stanton]

I'd like to start my own micro-brewery, complete with a cool little tap room to open up at the weekends.

 

[Merzbow]

I'd like to start some kind of local housing project for vulnerable people but I'd have to pay someone else to be in charge as I'd likely be in Japan paying sex workers to dress in Evangelion plugsuits in a penthouse I've designed to look like the Black Lodge..

[Your Fight Site]

Penthouse apartment in New York, villa in Spain. Then would wind down work. I wouldn’t retire completely (as I’d be bored as hell) but would probably move back to being self-employed and only take on projects I had a vested interest in or believed in the cause behind it since I would no longer be working to pay the bills.

[Joe Blog]

Buy a mountain. Like a real mountain. Build a luxury log cabin on it (by that I mean have someone build it for me). Spend my days sat in my cabin drinking red wine and reading books. I would have a helicopter pad and a pilot on call for when I fancied a jaunt into the real world.

[WyattSheepMask]

So your just renting the helicopter then?

[Surf Digby]

The first thing would be to get bloody great big house (possibly have one built to spec and incorporating all the things I like, resulting in a hideous mishmash of styles) with a recording studio in and get someone in to teach me how to produce, mix and master properly. 

I'd then put a band together (or a few bands, doing different styles) and kit it out with top end gear. I'd possibly set up a stage/PA/lighting hire company too, so I can use the renting of our gear as leverage to get us better gigs.

Similar to others, I'd set up a small chain of community cinemas (smaller than originally intended now that one of the buildings I want has been demolished) and run them the old fashioned way so that it offers an experience different to just watching a film in a big dark room. Cartoons before kid's films, a lady selling ice creams from a tray around her neck during the intermission, double and triple bills lasting until midnight, live bands,....

[SpursRiot2012]

For me, the dream of winning the lottery (not that I ever play) is not ever again having the stress that often living hand to mouth brings with it. I do OK these days, with a decent income and limited outgoings since we own our home without a mortgage, but there is still always the nagging feeling of not quite being secure. I don't have any savings, nor will my pension (if I live long enough) be anything to write home about. Just the financial security and the ability to, say, buy a home in a couple of my favourite places. Not having to do the grind that is gainful employment.

Of course, there would be early extravegences like property and probably a couple of cars, and I love my tech so that would be a big thing I'd be spending on.

I'd also like to buy my mother a home a little outside of London, where she can keep rescue animals. She currently lives in a two bedroom council house and has 13 or so animals. Vast majority of them are rescues. But she has always said her dream would be a big home with some land where she could have an animal sanctuary for rescued animals, so I'd like to do that for her.

Other than that, not having to fit my bulky frame into tiny easyJet or RyanAir seats on flights would be immense. And there are a few people I would like to sort out, money wise: some cousins, friends and others so that while they may still have to work, they would never be worrying about money again.

[Briefcase]

I think I would like to tour the World for a year or two and link it in with sporting events such as F1, World Cup etc just to say I did it and also visited a number of places. 

Then would like my own business of some kind and to possibly even own a football club (depending on how much I won obviously).

 

[HarmonicGenerator]

The immediate things would be holidays. Everywhere on the list ticked off: New Zealand, Hawaii, Disney World, follows Springsteen on tour etc.

Properties is a big one. Get a couple, one in each place we’ve got connections to.

Transport, the quickest available, and private. Die, commuting, die.

And I’d do a UKFF convention, pay for any member of this lovely place who wants to to come and enjoy a weekend. Put on some wrestling shows, booked by us, with Sid, Nash, an MC Rumble, pie and peas, forks, a place to sell the trainers you’re wearing, Movie corner, chippy teas, the works. And those who would find that insufferable can just stay in a nice hotel for a weekend on me.

Bigger stuff. I’d talk to the nearest and dearest and see what they need. 

I’d buy some buildings in a couple of places and turn them into dedicated performance spaces they don’t have to rely solely on funding to keep going (well, they would, but the funding would be me). Newcastle Improv Theatre, yes thanks.

And if we’re talking mega big bucks, I’m buying a public transport franchise and sorting the fucking transport links out, because they’re shit round here and I could do better. Oh, and I’ll save some Old Masters from being bought up by oligarchs and buy up the libraries to save them too.

If I can buy my way into a position of power at Pixar and/or Lucasfilm while I’m at it, so much the better. 

[DCW]

I'd like my own little cafe/deli. But because I'm rich and don't really need customers, I'd run it like that fat Shopshin lad from the documentary 'I Like Killing Flies', so if customers were being annoying or awkward I'd turf them out on the spot.

Beyond that I'd probably just buy a nice apartment in the centre of Dublin, and a quiet house down the country near the coast, where I'd recreate the grot scenes from Eyes Wide Shut with a cast of high class escorts!

[Joe Blog]

8 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

So your just renting the helicopter then?

Stop ruining my hypothetical dream. You are not welcome on my mountain anymore. 

[Surf Digby]

Something else I'd do if I won insano Euro millions money (ie: £100 million+) is buy a private trip to the ISS. It cost that other chap £14 million.

I'd probably give NASA a buzz first and see what it would cost for a private trip to The Moon. If it could be done for £50-60 million then I reckon that would be money well spent. 

[EDIT] Actually, no. If I had over £100 million I'd pay up to £80 million to go to The Moon. For a start, I can live more than comfortably on the remaining £20+ million. Secondly, I'm sure I could arrange serious sponsorship money from a global megacompany to do the first fashion shoot on The Moon. Just get one of the other astronauts to casually sling a jacket over his shoulder or something. Nobody gives a fuck how shit the end result is, it's all about the gimmick and hype.

[mim731]

Recreate the White Castle of Fear segments from WCW circa 1993. 

This is why I can't have nice things.